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Lulu Press LAUREL and HARDY The British Tours part 2
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Muddler Books Tales from The Anglers Retreat Fly Fishing Stories from a Legendary Guesthouse on the Scottish Island of South Uist
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Camden Miniature Steam Services I Worked with Traction Engines
£11.61
New Age Publishers UK Three Thousand Miles for a Wish
£13.74
New Haven Publishing Ltd A Vicious Love Story Remembering the Real Sid Vicious
Book SynopsisThe book tells the true inside story of the romance between 16 year old Teddie, and Sid Vicious, on the 1977 Sex Pistols Scandinavian Tour.Trade ReviewAn good read. Something a little bit different Once I started reading this book I couldn't stop. There is just something so touching about Teddie's account of young teenage love. Makes you remember what it was like to be that age and falling in love in the way only a teenage girl can! Then of course there is the fact that the young lad she falls in love with is Sid Vicious. It's refreshing to read such a different account of this well known character and I found the book very well written and also very funny in places. It really left me thinking and I will be going back to read again sometime soon.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1 TEDDIE 7 Chapter 2 SUMMER 1977 15 Chapter 3 AND SO THEY CAME - 33 Chapter 4 DINNER AND A CONCERT 78 Chapter 5 THE HAWK CLUB AFTER-PARTY 114 Chapter 6 THE HOTEL AFTER-PARTY 128 Chapter 7 SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL 161 Chapter 8 REVELATIONS 174 Chapter 9 FRIDAY THE DAY OFF 196 Chapter 10 THE LAST EVENING IN TRONDHEIM 225 Chapter 11 THE LAST GOODBYE 260 Chapter 12 DESPERATION 269 Chapter 13 NEW YORK 292
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Wider Vision Publishing A Life Sold What Ever Happened to That Guy Who Sold His Whole Life on Ebay
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Fiona Curnow Dan Knew
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Tulip Publishing Ultimate Catastrophe
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Tulip Publishing Ultimate Catastrophe
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Shakspeare Editorial Blood of the Lamb
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AuthorHouse Danvers State Memoirs Of A Nurse In The Asylum
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Pan Macmillan One L
Book SynopsisAn account of the bestselling author''s first year at Harvard law school
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Pan Macmillan The Last Foundling
Book SynopsisA deeply moving memoir from one of the last children to be taken in by the Foundling Hospital, London.
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Author Solutions (US) The Only Lesson
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Pam Skelton FIRST TO GO: The True Story of Bridget Frisby
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mindfulvanlife Let Go Fly Free
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The Perseus Books Group Banker To The Poor
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Adams Media Corporation Horse Crazy: Women and the Horses They Love
Book SynopsisMany women become Horse Crazy as girls and never lose their admiration for the beauty and dignity and the wisdom and whimsicality of these remarkable creatures. Here, fifty women offer their stories of the path of equine wisdom and the benefits of a good relationship with a loving horse, from improved confidence (and yes, even firmer thighs) to reconnecting with the world after a period of grief. Includes such stories as: A wheelchair-bound woman overcomes her physical limitations, not only learning to ride but to compete - and win! - in dressage Pregnant for the first time, a mother to be watches a brood mare deliver a colt and gains the confidence to face the arrival of her own child A stresses out executive learns that a bored cow pony can teach her a thing or two One lovelorn woman finds she can learn a lot about men from watching horses
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Marc Ensign International, LLC Be a Dick: How One Person Can Change the World in the Most Unexpected Way
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Shakspeare Editorial A Child of the Air
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Shakspeare Editorial East End to South West: A life story
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Sebastian Wocker T/A HAVIVO Publishing THE JOY OF ADDICTION: Confessions of a teenage wastrel
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UWA Publishing The Canon of Ancona
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Little, Brown Book Group Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain's First Nuclear Plant
Book SynopsisSellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL.Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked and built the complex SELLAFIELDS STORIES tells the true story of the Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nation's story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World War II to develop Britain's nuclear weapons, it was not until 1957 that it was given over to nuclear power, kick starting a revolution in post war energy. Since then it has been the site of protests, controversy and debate. Today it is still the country's biggest single industrial site employing 13,500 people.
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Christyplays Publications Traveller's Tale: The Making Of A Fairground Showman
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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd Luigi
Book SynopsisIn 1943, following the Armistice in Italy, many Prisoners of War were released by their guards but found themselves fugitives in a country over-run by the Germans. One such prisoner was known in Italy as Luigi. Realising that the Allies were not yet in his part of the country, he decided to walk from Padua in the north to reach the front-line in the south. During the course of his arduous journey through the backwaters of Italy he was hidden and given sanctuary by two Italian farming families. In 1949 he took his fiancée to meet them. Sadly, having survived the war he died in 1959 leaving his Italian friends unaware of his tragic death.
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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd Tales of a Gravedigger
Book SynopsisIan Shipley has now been traditionally hand-digging graves for 40 years. He was taught to dig the old-fashioned way and four decades on, averaging 114 graves per year, Ian can still be found habitually toiling away in one of any number of locations across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. In Tales of a Gravedigger, the author's first book, he recalls true tales from his early years whilst working at Newark's London Road Cemetery in Nottinghamshire. It is a light-hearted and occasionally amusing look into the life of a gravedigger. From coffins getting stuck to stomach-churning exhumations. From unexpected cave-ins to practical jokes and various other ghostly goings-on. It's an interesting glimpse into a profession that most of us know very little about. Ian has always believed that a grave should be hand-dug. It's more personal that way. For years he has declined to use mechanical digging, preferring instead to keep alive the old ways. In Newark-on-Trent and throughout the surrounding villages of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, Ian will possibly be the last of the traditional gravediggers.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Newark Cemetery 1 Chapter 2 In at the Deep End 8 Chapter 3 The Knowledge 10 Chapter 4 Initiation 14 Chapter 5 Moonlighting 16 Chapter 6 Phantom Digs 20 Chapter 7 The Notorious Mr X 22 Chapter 8 Machine Digging 24 Chapter 9 Class C's 27 Chapter 10 A Practical Joke 30 Chapter 11 Restless Spirit 31 Chapter 12 When the Coffin Gets Stuck 34 Chapter 13 The Old Gravedigger's Cottage 37 Chapter 14 There's Always One 39 Chapter 15 A Strange Occurrence 42 Chapter 16 Three Nuns 45 Chapter 17 Collapsed Graves 47 Chapter 18 Sikorski Goes Home 51 Chapter 19 A Lucky Escape for All 55 Chapter 20 Ignoring the Obvious 58 Chapter 21 The Man who was Buried Twice 61 Chapter 22 Exhumation 62 Chapter 23 Unmarked Graves 66 Chapter 24 We Do the Work; They Take the Credit 68 Chapter 25 Stumped 72 Chapter 26 Blood, Sweat and Toil 74 Chapter 27 Ashes? What Ashes? 78 Chapter 28 Can You Dig Us Another? 80 Chapter 29 An Unpleasant Smell 83 Chapter 30 All's Well That Ends Well 85 Chapter 31 Artic Conditions on New Year's Eve 88 Chapter 32 Peace of Mind 91 Chapter 33 Easily Spooked 94 Chapter 34 Strange People 97 Chapter 35 Cemetery Wildlife 99
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia
Book SynopsisWhat do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unravelling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestors' town in Turkey and leading to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the windswept heights of Mountainous Karabagh. Monte's life embodied the agony and the follies bedevelling the end of the Cold War and the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? "My Brother's Road" is not just the story of a long journey and a short life, it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.
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HarperCollins Publishers A Fair Cop
Book SynopsisThe true story of a young police officer’s imprisonment for a crime he did not commit It was Michael Bunting's life ambition to follow in his father's footsteps and become a police officer. But six years after his family watch him pass out and begin his life's dream, he is serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit. This is his story. Beaten almost senseless as he tried to arrest a violent criminal, the 23-year-old PC was left with head injuries and blurred vision that took him months to recover from. Back at work he was astounded to learn that his attacker had filed a complaint against him and that the Police Discipline and Complaints Department were following up the allegation. Two years later he was found guilty of common assault against his assailant and received a prison sentence that left him living his devastated life amongst the criminals he had previously sought to keep off the streets. Hard-hitting and at times heart-breaking the book is a graphic account of life behind bars for a policeman in one of England's hardest prisons. An extract from A Fair Cop:"The prisoner arrived once more with the trolley and placed the plate of food on to my hatch. 'Bunting,' he shouted pleasantly. I wasn't fooled. 'Thanks,' I said, as I walked across the cell to collect it. As I put my hand out to reach for the plate he snatched it away. He held it up to the hatch and peered through at me. 'PC Bunting, isn't it?' he asked, and then took a deep breath to muster as much saliva from the back of his throat as he could. With one swift movement he spat a big glob in to the middle of the food. The white phlegm floated around in brown gravy. 'Hey lads, I'm feeding the pig,' he said. With this, two other prisoners came to my cell hatch. They looked at me, sniggering. They then spat in my food too. The first prisoner put the plate on the hatch and gestured for me to come closer. 'You're in our territory now, you f***ing filth, and we're gonna f***ing carve you up.'
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Local Legend Ghosts of the NHS: And Other Spirits I Have Known
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Merlin Unwin Books It Happened in Lincolnshire
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New Haven Publishing Ltd Prince
Book SynopsisIn this large, full colour, hard cover book by James Court, yu can read about guitarist, drummer, bass player, pianist, keyboardist, song writer, producer, programmer, arranger, vocalist, business entrepreneur, actor, director, dancer and choreographer Prince. James Court has been an avid collector, writer and follower of Prince and his work for more than thirty years. Upon Prince's death in April 2016, James set about the colossal task of revealing every part of this fascinating ever-changing musician, leaving no stone unturned. The Biography tackles the issue's that plagued the Superstar, his fight for Musical freedom and his constant need to write record and perform without restriction or filter.Often described as the greatest Musician of his generation Prince remained at the very top of the game, a multi-instrumentalist with the ability to write cutting edge songs at will, his talent ability and influence were simply unmatched. The results make this the most comprehensive, detailed and exhaustingly accurate depiction of one of the most popular, misunderstood and illusive musicians in modern day music....
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Twelvetrees Camden True Crime Killers Volume 1: 18 real-life stories of serial killers and murderers with solved and unsolved killings from the USA, UK, Europe, and beyond.
£12.58
Twelvetrees Camden True Crime Killers Volume 2: 18 real-life stories of serial killers and murderers with solved and unsolved killings from the USA, UK, Europe, and beyond
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Twelvetrees Camden Cannibals: Monsters of True Crime: Real-Life Horror Stories
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Twelvetrees Camden True Crime Killers Volume 3: 18 real-life stories of serial killers and murderers with solved and unsolved killings from the USA, UK, Europe, and beyond.
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Twelvetrees Camden Orrible British True Crime Books 1 to 5: A True Crime Box Set and Bundle
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Twelvetrees Camden True Crime Killers Volume 4: 18 real-life stories of serial killers and murderers with solved and unsolved killings from the USA, UK, Europe, and beyond.
£12.58
Orla Kelly Publishing Whispers of the Soul
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Connor Court Publishing Gambling for Love: Australia's First Decimal Currency Bank Robber
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Torn Curtain Publishing Attacked
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Escribir desde la sombra
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HarperCollins India Provoked: The Story Of Kiranjit Ahluwalia
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Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd Salakhon Ke Peeche
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